Poetry Flashcards
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Trochee: the marching foot
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- is much firmer and more assertive
- stressed-unstressed|stressed-unstressed
1
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Lamb: the walking foot
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- steady pace, and helps concentrate on meaning rather than rhythm
- unstressed-stressed| unstressed-stressed
2
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Anapaest: the galloping foot
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unstressed-unstressed-stressed|unstressed-unstressed-stressed
3
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Rhyme: masculine
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Only rhyme at the very end of words
4
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Rhyme: feminine
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Multiple rhyming syllables
5
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Stanza: quatrain
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4 lines
6
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Stanza: sestet
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6 lines
7
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Stanza: tercet
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3 lines
8
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Stanza: couplet
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2 lines in a stanza
9
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Poetic form: ballads
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- contains a lot of dialogue
- action is often describe bed in the first person
10
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Poetic form: sonnets
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14 lines
11
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Poetic form: elegies
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Mourns death
12
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Poetic form: odes
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- serious subject
- praise of something
13
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Poetic form: villanelle
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19 lines
14
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Poetic form: lyric
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Musical description
- sonnet and haiku
